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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Jeez you made me think about how much fucked up shit I've been through.

Publicized school shootings on TV 90s
Watching the second plane crash on live TV on 9/11
Medical trauma 1: had testicular torsion ,went in 12 hours after it started, they tried to untwist it by hand while I was conscious, morphine ain't shit
Medical trauma 2: spontaneous pneumothorax, the ketamine they dosed me with didn't work so that chest tube insertion fucked me up
PMTSD related anxiety and depression
2 more pneumothorax
2008 financial crisis
college went well, but first job out of college after I got my computer engineering degree payed a fucking grand total of $51k.
2016 election
Hit 250lbs
2019 my highschool sweetheart wife cheated on me
COVID-19
Hit 280 lbs
Jan 6 insurrection
Stagflation
Lost 70lbs because of cutting back on food spending and weightloss medication
discovered my wife sexting the guy she cheated on me with after being in marriage therapy for 4 years
hit 250lbs again

Jesus christ, is this resilience, or are we all so burnt out that we just accept everything getting worse always.

Like I get the joke in Russia is "and then it got worse." But Jesus christ, it can't get worse if it's always bad can it?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

Not trying to dismiss your sufferings but I still think our generation had it way better than our grandparents, and probably better than 90% of the people in the world if you live in an advanced economy. For instance my grandfather went through the bloodiest war in human history, a bloody civil war, and a famine that killed millions of people. The problem right now is getting all the negative information that you have no control over from the internet, that's why I stay away from tuning into any news these days.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (5 children)

2023 is literally better than every year in human history that came before it. People are just negative, it's part of our nature to not be content and constantly push for improvement for ourselves and others.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Depends. For my country we were on the verge on a civil war, and then a massacre started a real outwards war... Guess the silver lining is we won't have a civil war anytime soon...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There are places that are worse, for sure, and I'm sorry to hear that. But the average is better. Just like the existence of really hot days does not disprove climate change, really terrible events in certain places do not disprove the overall trend of things getting better.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

upvoted, but, wouldn't it be really cold days? as in, contrary to the trend of warming.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yes, that's what I meant. Lol. Thanks for correcting

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